The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
I started work in this building 9 months ago. At that time, the meals in the canteen were priced at £3. Pretty reasonable for canteen fayre, I thought.
Early this year they jacked it up to £3.30 a meal. Not too bad, again, but the food wasn't exactly cordon bleu - chips and peas with everything, you know the score.
Anyway... next up, in early summer they upped the price of curries to £3.95. I didn't complain at thjis because the regular chef makes a pretty damn good curry for £4, and I can usually get a good portion size out of the dunner ladies. The reason given for increasing the price was not to cover the cost of ingredients, but to bring the price in line with the other bank sites in bristol that are lucky enough to have a canteen.
But now they've upped the price of all the hot meals to £4.95, which to me seems to be a bit on the steep side. Today for example, the menu option is steak and kidney pie with chips and peas. The slice of pie is approximately the same size as the average post-it note, although the chip and pea portion will be reasonable (I don't eat chips as a rule, but that's a different story...). It won't fill me up and I will require another proper dinner when I get home.
That's a 31% rise in under a year. It's now no cheaper to eat in the canteen than to pop down the road to the only decent pub in Bedminger and have a meal there. A bigger meal. On a proper plate and everything. Or pop into Subway for a very decent sub for about £2.50.
So, today's discussion is this...
Is £3.95 (nearly $8)a reasonable price for a ropey dinner? Am I being unreasonable? What's the maximum you would pay for a canteen meal?
It's hard to say.... the only time I ever really eat canteen food is if I'm at a museum or a the zoo where you have to eat at their "cafe" or go hungry hehe. And there you will pay up to $9.95 (About £5.00) for just a sandwich. Tack on more if you want to drink anything.
If you're lucky it hasn't been sitting under heat lamps for a few hours...
Maybe its time to start bringing your food :) I tell this to the hublette all the time. I tallied up what he spent on food at work during the week and almost fainted.
Yeah. Boycotting is the way to go. Except on curry days!
But it doesn't always go they way you plan it... firstly, most people are too apathetic to go elsewhere, so in the main part they only experience a fall in business of one. Secondly, as happened in an office I worked in previously, the canteen was boycotted (because the food was foul rather than for pricing issues) and it was decided that as there was clearly no demand for a canteen service, it simply closed down.
